Steigbachtobel

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The Steigbachtobel in the dry summer of 2018
Detail of a depiction of the Steigbachtobel after the flood of 1873 by Franz Xaver Glötzle

The Steigbachtobel is a ravine in the lower part of the Steigbachtal above Immenstadt in the Allgäu on the northwest side of the Mittagberg .

location

The ravine, designated as a geotope , compensates for the difference in altitude between the Illertal and the Steigbachtal. The latter is a so-called hanging valley , ie it is less deeply deepened than the higher-level main valley. This main valley, the Illertal, was deepened by the great Iller glacier in the last ice age . In the Steigbachtobel, which is part of the Nagelfluhkette Nature Park , you can find evidence of a primordial Iller river system: layers of the lower freshwater molasse are exposed there. They are known as the Upper Steigbach Layers. During the Tertiary , the molasse rocks were deposited in a trough in the area of ​​today's Alpine foothills .

The location of the Steigbachtals and -tobels described Benno Rauchegger in 1873 as follows: "The upper riser Bach Thal is a high valley of about 1 1/2 hours or longer, which in the background of a transverse bolt, the watershed between iller and Constance forms, then the The northeast foot of the Stuiben , the Steineberg and the Horn will be closed. The Mittagberg joins the Steineberg, which significantly narrows the valley at its mouth, creating a kind of Klam - the Steigbachtobel. "

Development

A ravine path with numerous steps on the orographic left side of the brook leads from the outskirts of Immenstadt, where you can cross the ravine on the Sepp-Gammel bridge, to the "hilze chapel" , which was built around 1800 and which houses a Statue of Saint Wendelin is located.

A hiking trail, which is used as a toboggan run in winter, and a driveway that is closed to public traffic run parallel to the Tobelweg.

Above the wooden chapel there is another bridge over the ravine.

Further up in the Steigbachtal are the Almagmach mountain inn and Alpe Gund. The lower part of the ravine was partially destroyed in 2006 by a landslide associated with flooding.

Buildings and monuments

The "hilze chapel"
The Kaiser Wilhelm memorial plaque

A little below the listed wooden chapel there is a crucifix on an exposed Nagelfluh rock and a picture is worked into the rock.

In one of the rock faces on the orographically right side of the ravine, a copper plaque with an inscription commemorates Wilhelm I. It was inaugurated on September 19, 1897 on the occasion of the emperor's 100th birthday. The 350 kg bar, which cost 1,205 Reichsmarks, was financed by donations. Immenstadt had reason to be grateful to Wilhelm I, who had provided financial aid after a flood disaster. In the daily and bulletin for town and country of August 11, 1873, a preliminary balance was drawn up, according to which there had been eight dead and two missing and about 100 houses and 60 outbuildings had been damaged or completely destroyed. Furthermore, according to the report, seven bridges were torn away and the city's aqueduct was damaged. “How important the force of the flowing water was, can be seen from the following. In the Steigbachtobel a stone with an approximate cubic capacity of 1000 cubic feet and a weight of 1200 centners was moved from its place. Stones weighing up to 200 cents were carried away by the angry element. The debris and mud that led the water down are so significant that large stretches of the river bed 20-25 feet high have been covered with debris. The total damage cannot yet be accurately stated. The same will exceed half a million guilders . "

literature

  • Benno Rauchegger , The flood breakthrough in Immenstadt. Brief description of the flood that occurred on July 1873. With 5 lithographed plates, [...] drawn by Xaver Glötzle , Immenstadt 1873

Web links

Commons : Steigbachtobel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Through the Steigbachtobel near Immenstadt in the Allgäu in the Nagelfluhkette nature park on wildniseuropa.blogspot.com
  2. ^ B. Rauchegger: The flood breakthrough in Immenstadt. Glötzle and Hamann, 1873, p. 5 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  3. ↑ Steigbachtobel - Mittag - Steineberg at www.wanderspatz.com
  4. ↑ Steigbachtobel in the Allgäu at www.steigbachtobel.de
  5. ↑ Steigbachtobel - Mittag - Steineberg at www.allgaeu-ausfluege.de
  6. ↑ Steigbachtobelweg Immenstadt on www.acht-seligkeiten.de
  7. ^ Franziska Baumann: Hiking on the water in Allgäu. Bergverlag Rother GmbH, 2016, ISBN 978-3-763-33143-7 , p. 38 ff. ( Limited preview in the Google book search)
  8. ↑ Tag and display sheet for city and country No. 179, August 11, 1873, p. 1 ( limited preview in Google book search)

Coordinates: 47 ° 32 ′ 56 ″  N , 10 ° 12 ′ 32 ″  E